Cook County Business
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Movers and shakersJan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Movers and Shakers Movers and Shakers McLeodUSA, a provider of IP-based telecommunications services for small, medium and multi-location businesses, promoted Sean Flemin...
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Libertyville firm heats up network video servicesJan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - About six years ago, Joe Gaucher was sitting at his kitchen table with six colleagues. They weren't sharing a dinner. They were creating a company. Libertyville-based Vi...
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Snowmobile dealers find plenty of white revs up salesJan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - December's snow has equated to brisk sales at area snowmobile dealers. Retailers, especially those closer to the Wisconsin border, are reporting hikes in snowmobile sal...
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Washington Mutual to close branchesJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Washington Mutual told employees Friday it intends to close 25 local branches and cut about 150 jobs. The cutbacks are scheduled to be made by mid-April and will leave W...
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Market highs and lows hit area companies in 2007Jan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Public companies in the suburbs showed incredible gains or incredible losses in the stock market during 2007, an extreme pattern evident in nearly every industry. Such e...
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Motorola's new CEO faces immediate challengesJan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - New Motorola Inc. CEO Greg Brown doesn't have the secret weapon his predecessor Ed Zander possessed when he arrived at the cell phone maker four years ago -- the Razr. B...
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Motorola stock falls after Citigroup cites 'lackluster' holiday salesJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - Motorola Inc. dropped the most in nine months in New York trading after a Citigroup analyst said the company's holiday sales suffered because it lacked compelling produc...
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Uline Shipping Supplies to move headquarters to Wis. from WaukeganJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - MILWAUKEE -- Uline Shipping Supplies will move its Waukegan, Ill., headquarters about 20 miles north to Wisconsin, bringing with it about 1,000 jobs, Gov. Jim Doyle said...
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Incredible acquires video game studioJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - Arlington Heights-based Incredible Technologies, a manufacturer of coin-operated games, said Thursday it acquired State Street Games, a video game development studio bas...
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Walgreens sales up 7.8% in DecemberJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - DEERFIELD -- Walgreens had December sales of $5.5 billion, an increase of 7.8 percent from $5.1 billion for the same month in 2006. Sales in comparable stores (those ope...